This past week I attended an Open Source Think Tank hosted by The Olliance Group and DLA Piper and sponsored by among others Microsoft and Sun. There were at least 100 invited guests including more than 40 CEO of companies w

The industry pundits are lining up behind the idea that Sun's aquisition of MySQL last week is setting up a battle between Red Hat and Sun for open source supremacy. Is it? Maybe. It would be interesting to hear from a fly on the wall what is being said about this in places like IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP,

Matt Assay suggests in his Cnet, The Open Road blog today that open source may be somewhat recession proof, and open source uptake might even be aided by the needs for IT to reduce spending during a recession, but commercial ope